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The writer argues that legends are stories that are likely to have their beginnings in fact, but over time, are added to and re-to...

love between two ordinary people: "Placed on the same pedestal for no good reason, drawn randomly from millions but convinced it h...

beauty of nature and the insights it provides can unite the two. The primary focus of Tintern Abbey is the temporal or physical w...

shivering in the gale/ The bark unfurls her snowy sail/ And whistling oer the bending mast/Loud sings n high the freshning blast" ...

now, instead of letting his hands out into the open, he shoves them deep into his pockets and does not talk much. When he talks, t...

so strong, that Browning anticipates that it will follow her after death (line 14). Scottish poet Robert Burns also relied...

emphasis on "mind-forged" shows that these are mental attitudes rather than physical chains, but their effect on human freedom is ...

grief-stricken protagonist/narrator who is mourning the loss of his beloved, Lenore, and has perhaps taken to drink much as Poe ha...

to "enjoy" whatever society had to offer, or whatever society insisted on the citizen possessing in order to follow the norm. Th...

about the boundaries and concerns of civil, political and religious justice, such as where the jurisdiction of the state can be de...

melted, and I let it fall and break" (Frost 9-13). This section of the poem clearly offers the reader the image of winter coming o...

are not red as coral; her breasts are not white but dun colored; her hair is coarse and wiry (on her head; Shakespeare being Shake...

and to help win over his coy mistress" (Reiff, 2002, p. 196). The first person pronouns "vary between the singular, which emphasiz...

$15 on the sale (Untermeyer). "His mother was proud, but the rest of the family were alarmed" (Untermeyer 4). Their alarm was well...

Francis tried to resume his former practices and his old life, and briefly considered a military career, but the call to a religio...

First, there is the surface level, that he was walking and had to decide which path to take to get to his destination. But at a mu...

held public education of the period in great disdain, which is expressed in a poem dubbed "Saturday Afternoon:" "From all the jail...

is presumably himself, as an adult, looking back at the things his father did for him. These are things that the child clearly nev...

Bloom). He escaped but was arrested and tried, and sentenced to a year and a day (Dyson and Bloom). His attorney got him released ...

her sisters husband and how he had cut out her tongue to keep silent and a prisoner (Ovid BkVI:571-619). Those characters who as...

about the circumstances of the household. An atmosphere of bitterness with bouts of anger is described. The recollection suggests ...

was raised a Catholic, he was christened in St. James Church (Eaves et al). During his childhood, Blake was surrounded by visions ...

in a house The morning after death Is solemnest of industries Enacted upon earth,- The sweeping up the heart, And...

of a child. 1. "I a child and thou a lamb" (Blake 670). B. Dickinsons narrator is a dying woman. 1. "The Eyes around-had wrung the...

nearly twenty years without complaint. Should that not account for something? As his pain intensifies, Ivan Ilych begins feeling...

safe place: the dead are "untouched" beneath their rafters of satin and roofs of stone (Dickinson). They wait motionless for the r...

stations" (Rock and Roll Hall of Fame). He was clearly very influenced by many talented musicians at the time, and in a place th...

of knight. He was the kings representative in battle, and his role as the protector of freedom was assumed with honor and uncompro...

and lonely offices?" (Hayden 13-14). All of this speaks of a childs ignorance and how children are simply children, ignora...

is an odd remark. She picks up on it and asks if hes referring to her as being vacuous and he says no, "it is I who am inane" (Eli...